by Abdulrashid Alfaqih At the beginning of 2017, I left Yemen with my colleague and wife, Radhya Almutawakel, to represent the Mwatana Organization for Human Rights in an international advocacy tour. This tour included the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and a number of other European countries. Back then, we thought the world’s […]

by Idayat Hassan The Boko Haram insurgency is now in its eighth year. The Nigerian government continues to declare victories over the group, which is now split in two: into the Shekau faction and the Islamic State-aligned Al Barnawi faction. Since 2009, the insurgents have engaged in gross human rights violations, including extrajudicial killings, rapes,

by Goran Šimić It is strange how people think that criminal law is at its best when the perpetrator is discovered and sent to jail. Unfortunately, every time that happens, criminal law has actually “suffered one more defeat” in the face of what would be the ideal solution: not to have criminal offences, perpetrators, or victims

by Danielle Purifoy On December 12th, the Alabama Black Belt did something that 68% of white Alabamians refused to do—reject the election of a white supremacist sexual abuser to the U.S. Senate. Ninety-six percent of black voters in Alabama supported Democrat Doug Jones, a candidate who did not so much inspire confidence in his political agenda

By Ram Kumar Bhandari “They came at night, way back in June 1999, and took my husband away. I was pregnant at that time. Amit, my only son, is 18 now and often asks where his father is and when he will finally come home. What can I tell the boy? My children have lost

By Pari Ibrahim In 2014, ISIS terrorists entered the city of Sinjar in Iraq, with the well-articulated, written, pre-meditated plan to eradicate the Yezidi people. Yezidis are members of an ethno-religious minority group living in northern Iraq. We practice a unique monotheistic religion that is different from Islam, and our people have been persecuted for

TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN CONTEXT Online Symposium, 2017 Truth, reconciliation, accountability, and reparation are generally identified as the core components of transitional justice. When it is not politically or practically feasible to hold perpetrators of human rights violations criminally accountable, is it acceptable to settle for alternative–more limited–forms of accountability for the sake of advancing the